String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale

Preface. The String Equation and Solitons; S.P. Novikov. Lectures on String Theory in Curved Spacetimes; H.J. de Vega, N. Sánchez. Strings and Multi-Strings in Black Hole and Cosmological Spacetimes; A.L. Larsen, N. Sánchez. Renormalization Constants from String Theory; P. di Vecchia, et al. Closed Superstrings in Magnetic Field: Instabilities and Supersymmetry Breaking; A.A. Tseytlin. Solution of the SL(2,R) String in Curved Spacetime; I. Bars. Internal Physics of Black Holes: Recent Developments; W. Israel. Black Hole Entropy and Physics at Planckian Scales; V. Frolov. Black Hole Condensation and Duality in String Theory; A. Strominger. Correlation Dynamics of Quantum Fields; and Black Hole Information Paradox; B.L. Hu. Topology and Time Reversal; A. Chamblin, G.W. Gibbons. Polymer Geometry at Planck Scale and Quantum Einstein Equations; A. Ashtekar. Modular Cosmology; T. Banks. Status of String Cosmology: Basic Concepts and Main Consequences; G. Veneziano. Status of String Cosmology: Phenomenological Aspects; M. Gasperini. Predictions from Quantum Cosmology; A. Vilenkin. Statistics of the Microwave Background Anisotropies Caused by Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum-Mechanical Origin; L.P. Grishchuk. Cosmological Inflation and the Nature of Time; D.S. Salopek. Aspects of Quantum Cosmology; D.N. Page. New Aspects of Reheating; D. Boyanovsky, et al. The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Status Report; L.G. Yaffe. Aspects of Cosmic-Ray Astrophysics in the Galaxy and Beyond; M.M. Shapiro. Quantum Field Theory for Dynamical Systems with Curved Phase Space; E.S. Fradkin. Author Index.